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McCoy Contractors is playing a vital role in the major redevelopment of Coundon Court School in Coventry as part of the Department for Education’s 10-year Schools Rebuilding Programme.
The £40m project aims to create a modern, net-zero carbon campus while preserving the school’s heritage buildings and respecting nearby green belt areas.
The Coundon Court School redevelopment is part of the government’s ambition to rebuild and refurbish schools creating modern environments to allow students to gain the knowledge and skills for success.
This long-term partnership will support MAG’s capital development priorities at its three airports: Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands, over the next five to eight years. These works will play a vital role in supporting MAG’s investment in its airport infrastructure, improving passenger experience and meeting its sustainability targets, including net-zero operations by 2038.
The Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) has awarded Fugro a contract to deliver the offshore wave and current measurement network (rete ondametrica e correntometrica d’altura (ROCA)) for Italy’s marine and coastal ecosystems.
The two-year project will be executed with Italian partners Poliservizi Srl and Prisma Srl.
The contract is part of ISPRA’s marine ecosystem restoration (MER) project, an initiative under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, that aims to restore the marine habitats, across Italian waters and comprehensively map coastal and marine habitats.
KOREC Group is delighted to announce that it has become a top level, tier 1 reseller for DJI’s Enterprise drones through an agreement with Midwich Ltd, a key distributor of DJI Enterprise’s drone solutions in the UK and Ireland.
This new agreement will see KOREC further expanding its drone and UAV portfolio which already includes Wingtra, Parrot and AgEagle products.
The DJI Enterprise range, including Matrice and Mavic rotary drones as well as Dock solutions, will provide KOREC geospatial customers with a comprehensive, one-stop solution.
Construction works and rigorous testing of new modern tunnel linking Silvertown in east London to the Greenwich Peninsula is now sufficiently complete to set out planned opening date. New bus routes serving the tunnel, which will be free for at least the first year, will also launch the same day.
The introduction of these new buses, including the Superloop4 (SL4) between Canary Wharf and Grove Park, will increase the hourly number of buses able to cross the river in the area from six to 21, meaning more Londoners will benefit from using the tunnel.
For at least 12 months from 7 April 2025, the new cross-river bus routes serving Greenwich, Newham, and Tower Hamlets – including the new Superloop SL4 which runs from Grove Park to Canary Wharf, will be free.
Bentley Systems has entered into a strategic partnership with Google to integrate Google’s high-quality geospatial content with Bentley’s infrastructure engineering software and digital twin platform to improve the way infrastructure is designed, built and operated.
By leveraging the engineering data created and managed in Bentley software alongside Google’s geospatial data, AI and analytics, and cloud technologies, engineers can design and manage infrastructure in context and at scale to address today’s most urgent challenges, from mitigating climate risk to maintaining aging infrastructure.
Through the partnership, Bentley software users and developers can use Google Maps platform’s geospatial content, including Google’s photorealistic 3D tiles, for real-world geospatial context and immersive 3D experiences in their digital workflows. The partnership complements Bentley’s recent acquisition of Cesium, the foundational open platform for creating powerful 3D geospatial applications. Bentley is also collaborating with Google Cloud to deliver AI-driven insights for asset analytics
A digital twin-native product, built with Bentley’s iTwin platform, OpenSite+ delivers AI-powered efficiencies and better-quality civil site designs with an enhanced design experience with Copilot; layout optimisation; automated drawing production and smart design tools. With OpenSite+, users also maintain control over their proprietary data during AI training, which creates a solid foundation to responsibly guide the development of AI models that will drive new levels of productivity and accuracy. OpenSite+ is the first of a new generation of Bentley Open Applications which run on desktops for optimal responsiveness, while offering the benefits of cloud-based applications, such as automatic updates and cross-operating system availability
Embodied carbon is the carbon footprint of an asset before it is built, encompassing the greenhouse gases emtted during the construction process. Bentley’s new carbon analysis capabilities in iTwin Experience deliver a ‘cradle-to-gate’ assessment of a design’s carbon footprint, from raw material extraction until it leaves the factory’s gate – which represent the largest contributors to embodied carbon. Traditionally, producing a carbon analysis report is highly manual, time consuming, and costly, with multiple steps, These new carbon analysis capabilities enable infrastructure engineers to overcome these challenges through automated material quantification; easy reporting and in-content 3D visualisations
Infrastructure projects are complex, involving multiple organisations, teams, disciplines and stakeholders. As a result, infrastructure organisations need an open ecosystem for their data that enables integration and interoperability across different tools and platforms. Bentley’s vision for open data ecosystems to advance infrastructure engineering is ensuring that its applications, platforms and solutions meet the evolving needs of our industry. In addition to its Bentley Open Applications for infrastructure modelling and simulation, which allow users to edit models from other vendors, Bentley has developed over the last decade a robust, open-source schema specifically for infrastructure. Bentley’s Base Infrastructure Schema structures and organises data so that it can be queried, analysed and reused across multiple platforms, enabling infrastructure professionals and organisations to fully leverage the value of their data.